How did science get started? A few years back, we looked at one answer to that question in the form of a book called The Invention of Science. In it, British historian David Wootton places the origin ...

Most of us are aware of the deep problems in the current US pharmaceutical industry. Yet few may realize that today’s issues stem from changes that occurred centuries ago. As I explain in The ...

The canonical imperative : rethinking the Scientific Revolution / Margaret J. Osler -- Newton as final cause and first mover / B.J.T. Dobbs -- The Scientific Revolution reasserted / Richard S.

Conceptions of the scientific revolution from Bacon to Butterfield : a preliminary sketch / David C. Lindberg -- Conceptions of science in the Scientific Revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Metaphysics and ...

The scientific revolution has increased our understanding of the world immensely and improved our lives immeasurably. Now, many argue that science as we know it could be rendered passé by artificial ...

Three years ago Norbert Wiener, professor of mathematics at M.I.T., was a “longhair” who had coined the word “cybernetics”* to wrap up the many-sided science of communication and control devices. Now ...

Roald Sagdeev has already watched one scientific empire rot from the inside. When Sagdeev began his career, in 1955, science in the Soviet Union was nearing its apex. At the Kurchatov Institute in ...

In a four-part series, we examine the evolution of generative AI. What were the scientific and technological developments that turned the very first, clunky artificial neurons into the astonishingly ...